Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee, is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns. These things and deeds are dia...
I found that we must build our consciousness or faith step by step. When we make certain impressions on our subconscious mind and live for years by those impressions we cannot expect to destroy them in a few days. We must patiently substitute constru...
Probably no single event highlights the strength of Campbell’s argument (on peak oil) better than the rapid development of the Alberta tar sands. Bitumen, the world’s ugliest and most expensive hydrocarbon, can never be a reasonable substitute fo...
But if it so happens ... a work ... under pain of otherwise becoming shameful or false, requires fantasy ... [and that] certain limbs or elements of a figure are altered by borrowing from other species, for example transforming into a dolphin the hin...
Principal Evans: Mr. and Mrs. Abagnale, this is not a question of your son's attendance. I regret to inform you that, for the past week, Frank has been teaching Mrs. Glasser's French class. Paula Abagnale: He what? Principal Evans: Your son has been ...
Sarita's been so busy exercising her brain that she hasn't had time for her heart, the poor thing.
Just think of what would have happened to poor old Naaman if he had decided to dunk himself only once?
Stop thinking about class, she'd say. Like a rich man telling a poor man to stop thinking about money.
Poor Mary. They married her to Jesus, and Jesus is an asexual circumcised revolutionary. What future is there to be had in that scenario?
He knew that Hop-Frog was not fond of wine; for it excited the poor cripple almost to madness; and madness is no comfortable feeling.
Poor greedy one, wherever he runs He's after food, and death is after him. (Saadi)
Between two brains, there will always be misunderstandings and lies caused by parasitic smells, drafts and poor-quality reception.
We learned the seven traditional ways to make words unclear." "Seven? That many? Which was the most effective?" "Poor grammar skills.
Most people, in my opinion, steal much of what they are. If they didn't what poor items they would be.
I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.
And on the way home I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language.
To be poor, ugly and, moreover, intelligent condemns one in our society to a dark and disillusioned life...to beauty all is forgiven.
Aw, Poke, you poor, kind, decent, stupid girl. You saved me and I let you down.
You have a faculty for defining the simplest in terms of the grandiose, so that a poor devil like me can't understand it.
It is a good thing to know what it is to be poor, and a better thing if you can do it in company.
I have always found that it is far more convenient to be rich rather than to be poor.
